Card holder



Sept. 16 1924.

C. T. GOEWEY CARD HOLDER Filed Sept. 24. 1923 INVENTOR I l i i, E

ATTORNEYS WIYYVESSES Patented Sept. 16, i924.

l maaar TE rGFF/I(2E.. y' l GHARLEST. Goni/vnr, or son'rn Bann, INDIANA.

cani) HOLDER.

Application filed September 24, 1923. Serial No; (564,568.`

To all wlw/m, t may concern.'

Be it known that I, CHARLES T. Goawn, a citizen of the United States, andresident of South Bend, in the county of St. Joseph and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Card may be quickly and conveniently moved to a position to allow the card to be withdrawn and possibly reversed.

A further object is to provide a card:v

holder having a locking or card receiving means which is strictly a one-part construc- V tion and therefore the necessity of bringing coacting fastening devices together and 'connecting the same is obviated.

A further object is to provide a card holder which is neat in appearance, durable in use and cheap to manufacture.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent during the course of the following description.

In they accompanying drawing forming a part of this application and in which like numerals yare employed to designate like parts throughout the same,'

Figure l is a perspective of the improved card holder applied.

Figure 2 is a detail sectional view illustrating a container equipped with the invention.

Figure 3 is a detail horizontal sectional view illustrating a card retaining means,

Referring to the accompanying drawingk wherein is shown the preferred embodiment of the invention, the numeral 5 designates a container of any desired type, itvbeing understood that the improved card holder may be applied to a valise, a satchel, a trunk or a package of any kind and in fact the card holder is capable of application to so many different articles that they need not be mentioned here. However, the drawing illustrates a container which might be saidy object of they to 4be especially 'adapted for use-in sending laundry back and forth through the mail.

In carrying out the invention an elongated holder 6 of any suitable material is"y stitched or otherwisesecured along its longitudinal edgesy as indicated at 7 to the container and it is suitably secured as indi-y cated at 8 to the container alo-ng the transverse line intermediate the endsthereof sor as to define a pair of compartments. f

The compartments are open at the-'ends of the stripy 6 for the reception of'vaddress and stamp cards. Tliat'is to say one of the compartments may receive an address card while the other vcompartmentmay receive a card to which stamps to the proper amount are applied.` As th'ejend of each compartment is open thev cards may be readily in` serted and removed and reversed if desire'd7 ory entirely new cards may be employed.

the return address ymay be `applied to the. other sider of the card lso that when the article reaches its destination the card is merely reversed "so asy to ypresentthev new address. This'applies only yof course when the container passesbaclr` and forth be-4 A new stamp card tween certain points. may be inserted when necessary'.` f

Each cardv is designated by the numeral 10 and may if desired be covered by a transparent member such as a sheet of isinglass l1 and incase isinglass is employed Athis too will be heldy in place "by card'retaining means.

, Figurek 3"illustrates that the'outer end of all the compartments and more particularly the outer end of the strip 6 is provided withan inwardly projecting stud 14.- having its inner end provided with a flange The sending 'address may be ap: plied to one side of the address card and the improved portion 1G constituting what might be` said n to bea socket to kreceive one end of the card kwhereby accidental loss of the card is pre- 'y vented. The annular fiange 16 on the inner end yofthe stud 14k may be received in a depression 18 in the receptacle or package'- and in case the material formingthe package or receptacle is soft the annular flange 16 will imbed itself in the material and thereby prevent loss of the card. It will be seen that the endfof the strip 6 may be manually lifted so as to free the outer end of the card and kthereby allow the cardto be conveniently removed.

In carryingout kthe invention the card may be as long. as the distance between the transverse stitching V8 and the stud 14 so that it will be necessary to spring thecard essa-ry to have the card long enough to re-V quirethis springing action and cards not quite so long as those previously mentioned have been found to work satisfactorily as the card is extremely unlikely to work its way beneath the disk-shaped head of the stud lf-l. The stud 14 is permanently connected to the terminal port-ion of the strip 6 and consequently by merely pulling or drawing the end of the strip outwardly the card may be slipped beneath the head 18 and either inserted or removed,

Attention is especially directed to the fact that the improved card retaining means are located almost entirely beneath the strip 6 andthe only part which extends beyond the outer surface of the strip is merely the rounded terminal portion of the shank and this will not become attached to the strings around other packages in the mail.

In summarizing it will be seen that the holder `is in the nature of a frame of any desired material having the open ends thereof provided with the improved stud and disk-shape head which absolutely maintain the card in position. Y

Vith reference to the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing it will be apparent that the improved card retaining means will effectively retain cards in position and that the card retaining mean-s may be conveniently removed out of the way when it is desired to insert or remove the cards.

Furthermore the improved holder may be economically manufactured and in use will give extremely good service. Y

It is to be understood that the form of the invention herewith shown and described is to be taken as a preferred example of the saine and that such minor changes Vin arrangement and construction of parts may be made as will remain Within the spirit of the invention and the scopeof what is claimed.

Having thus described the invention,' what l claim is:

L The combination with a base, of a frame attached along its longitudinal edges tol said base and having one end open, a

stud carried solely by the open end of said frame and adapted to engage said base whereby to receive a card beneath the base,-

said stud having its terminal portion provided with a disk-shaped head adapted to underlie cards beneath the frame.

2. The combination with a base having a depression, of a frame of yieldable material secured along its longitudinal edges to` said base and having one end open for the reception of a card, and a stud carried by the open end of said frame of yieldable material and having a disk-shaped head adapted to be received in said depression and to underlie ythe card confined beneath the frame.

The lcombination with a base having a depression, of a frame of yieldable material secured to Said base and having one end open for the reception of aV card, a stud carried by the open end of said frame of yieldable materiahand having means adaptjk ed to be received in said depression whereframe adiacent to the open end of the lat-V ter, said stud extending inwardly from the frame to vard thebase and being adapted to engage with'the adjacent end ofthe card to retain the latter beneath sa'id frame.

CHARLES T.V GOEVVEY, 

